While awaiting the wonders of unnatural selection, Obama has done heroic service on behalf of the most exotic component of the LGBT coalition: transgender people. Obama called the first-ever transgender White House conference, appointed the first transgender presidential appointee, instructed Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis to ban any “unwelcome conduct” toward transgender employees of “contractors at every level,” and mainstreamed deviance in public schools in the name of ending “bullying.”

Of course, the political favors between favored groups and the Obama administration work both ways.

You Scratch My Back, I’ll Tickle Your Ears

According to the Chicago Tribune, Joe Biden gave “a speech laden with political red meat” at the National Education Association‘s annual convention in Chicago last month. “The new Republican Party has undertaken the most direct assault on labor,” Biden bloviated.

The Tribune noted the NEA spent $50 million on Obama’s behalf in 2008 and “traditionally has ranked among Democrats’ most powerful political allies.” The day after Biden’s speech, 72 percent of the NEA’s delegates voted to endorse Obama for the 2012 election. NEA President Dennis Van Roekel beamed that Obama “has never wavered from talking about the importance of education or his dedication to a vibrant middle class.”

Not all were as sanguine. Chicago delegate Fred Klonsky argued, without a hint of irony, the vote should have Obama shaking in his boots. “For an incumbent Democratic president to receive less than 75 percent of the delegate vote at an NEA convention ought to cause some concern for the administration,” he averred. The NEA has never supported a Republican presidential candidate.

The capo himself, President Obama, will speak to the AFL-CIO’s annual convention in Detroit on September 5. The president promised a groundbreaking new jobs plan after he returned from vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, but he will speak to Rich Trumka’s cronies first. Big Labor spent at least $300 million electing Barack Obama in 2008 and wasted tens of millions in 2010 trying to stop the Tea Party revolt. Although some media outlets have dreamed of labor splitting with Obama, the president of the union’s Detroit chapter, Saundra Williams, admitted they are already making plans for the re-election campaign. “We’re starting early, already making plans,” she said. “We will be doing everything to turn out the vote and educate the members.”

Community-Organizer-In-Chief

Alphonso Jackson, who served as secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under George W. Bush, has said Barack Obama remains, above all, a community organizer. Understanding this background is pivotal to understanding this coalition-building president. A community organizer aggregates disaffected groups and drills them to push together for the same goals — which almost invariably involve extracting the financial wealth of other, less organized groups. The organizations his administration acknowledged collectively represent the core of Obama’s political support:

Obama’s fiery vendetta against the United States envisioned by our Founding Fathers cannot be extinguished by his inner decency, mollified by his opponents’ acts of goodwill, or swallowed up by a sense of gratitude at the profound service rendered by America’s military heroes. Why would Obama be grateful to people who defended a system and a structure he despises?

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